<p>Depends on the level of the course. </p>
<p>Linear Algebra was the easiest course I had in college 30 years ago–the only class I ever skipped on a regular basis, though I knew some very smart kids that had trouble with it for some reason. That was at the level of simple vector and matrix manipulations, inversions, determinents, etc. My son had a simliar course last year that wasn’t required and that his advisor didn’t think would even count as a technical elective for his engineering program. I think they may throw it in to some degree with differential equations.</p>
<p>Linear algebra notation is used in EE and other fields to easily describe sets of linear equations and operations. It is the essence of the MATLAB programming language which is one of the most widely used languages for performing engineering investigations. At this level, I don’t consider linear algebra very hard at all. I wish I had a more rigorous background in linear algebra and other mathematical fields, though.</p>